Category Archives: Blog

So Avatar has come out on DVD, the remake of Clash of the Titans has hit theaters, and some tens of thousands of women are challenging God to cause an earthquake. Only one of these items is good news. I … Continue reading →

I was going to post about Easter dinner with my parents… and how their fetish for food was on lavish display.  Or how I finally got them to take their first cruise after years of ranting about how experiences (like, … Continue reading →

Oddly warm January. Wet and gray, humid and misty. One freak blast of chilly weather earlier in the week. At night, traffic looks like a glistening wet snake of red and gold, slowly pushing its bulk easward along I-84. A … Continue reading →

Happy Holidays, Yule, Christmas, and a hearty “Saturnalia.” I take my holidays seriously, not because of any belief in the divine but for the tangible warmth of friends, family, and feasts. Notes for a sketch of a holiday at the … Continue reading →

Just a quick note on this Thanksgiving morning. This week Michael Crichton’s posthumous novel Pirate Latitudes was published. It was discovered on his computer, and seems to have been written as a side-project while Crichton was toiling at his novel … Continue reading →

July 2009 Last week I returned from an eight-day cruise through the Caribbean. My travels are typically done on foot, through old ruins or misty mountains, so it was a change of pace being on a floating fortress. Each night … Continue reading →

June, 2009 Two exquisite scientific discoveries were announced this week. The first is the development of contact lenses that cure blindness. Scientists from the University of New South Wales and researchers at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital have pioneered a … Continue reading →

Donna and I went to Block Island this past weekend.  The excursion was needed; my blood has been boiling lately at the American publishing industry.  It was an hour drive to New London and then a ferry-ride of about an … Continue reading →

For those who don’t know, I’m a James Bond fanatic.  I grew up reading the original Ian Fleming paperback novels, devoured every film, and brandished Playstation controllers to cruise video game contributions to the 007 universe.  I find the mythos … Continue reading →

There were thunderstorms all this past week, which made me happy.  Grey rainy days have always appealed to me more than bright blue ones.  Colors seem richer, contrasted with the dark-quilted sky.  I might be a scientific rationalist — so … Continue reading →